The core role of pathology in all diagnostic methods

The Pathology Department is one of the essential departments in large comprehensive hospitals, whose main task is to undertake pathological diagnosis work during the medical process, including through live tissue examination, exfoliation and fine needle aspiration cytology examination, and autopsy, to provide clear pathological diagnosis for clinical practice, determine the nature of the disease, and identify the cause of death.

Compared with other diagnostic methods such as B-ultrasound, conventional radiation, CT, MRI, and isotopes, pathological diagnosis is currently recognized by the medical community around the world as the most reliable, reproducible, and accurate. Pathological diagnosis reports are not imaging descriptions, but clear disease names. Clinicians mainly determine treatment principles, estimate prognosis, explain clinical symptoms, and clarify the cause of death based on pathological reports.

The authority of pathological diagnosis determines its core role in all diagnostic methods, so the quality of pathological diagnosis not only affects the relevant departments but also the overall medical quality of the hospital.